Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-02-03

all the women and children shuhheu
him." "How could they do other
wise" | replied, "knowing your
business as they must "My BUSH
ness what do they know OF my
busiuess?"
what do they know Go ask Of her,
That mother. widowed, and alone,
who with caspcd hauds and streaming eyes
Pleads with her wretchod son;
ASK why her pale lips quivor thus,
why with hcart-rcodlng agony
Her aged form must bow.
go ask her IA she falls beneath
The maniac's maddened blows;
She'll point 20 thee. 20 thy helish work.
Go TO her. she'll tell thee what She knows.
60 ask the wife who struggles on
Chained TO a living corpse,
wha, power has made her home a hell,
and darkencd all her hopes
ASK why she trims her midnight lamp
Within her wretchcd room,
And tolls, ana wceps and prays for death,
And breads the coming morn.
She'll toll. that with the morning comes
IRE worst Of human foes,
4 drunken husband Go 10 her!
she1l teu thee what she knows.
Go ash the sister on whose 'Tow
The gathering shadows rest,
What grief has crowded her young life,
what arrow pierced her breast.
ASK why her check go often wears
The crimson blush Of shame
when she her brothers foot-step hears
Or when sho speaks his name
Ask why his eyes so wildly CLEAN
His step unsteady grows;
ASK why he spurns sisters love,
And she'il tell thee what she knows
Go ask the child wbo walks ollr streets
And bcgs for daily bread,
Why IN her home no father smiles,
No cheerful board Is spread;
Aud she'll lift her fearful eyes 10 thine,
And say in accent mild,
have no home no father now,
For I'm "A drunkurd's child.
And looking in thy guilty face,
Her heart midst suffering froze,
Mid choking sohs ana burning tears,
Shell tell thee what she knows.
And thcy'l II tell thee what they know,
OF thee aud thine accursod trade,
OF fathers. husbands, brothers, sons.
Tempted 10 DEATH betrayed.
They tcll thee of thy broKen VOWS,
OF truth and honor sold.
They tell thee of their ruined homes
Their hoarthstones dark aud lone,
A,,.I L.. ,,r.. go D., ,,sIit
Thou hast done the deed
And God VIII tell thee what they
What He Himself hath known,
when with these wrond ones thou shalt stand
Before His Great judgement throne,
He heeds the widows prayer
Nor will he pass the Monster by
who drives them TO despair;
Hen tell thee what they know In tones
Never to be forgot,
when from His lips the mandate comes,
Depart from me ye acoursea,
! know thee not.
When you see a path shoveled tC
the back doors of certain saloons
on Sunday morning, before Their,
are paths anywhere else, wonder il
that means the enforcement of Sun
day laws?
v "
When you see man come out o.
saloon on a Sunday morning
fourishing a bottle of whiskey o
brandy to the passers by, wonde
if that means the enforcement o
Sunday laws?
When n man carries home a pal
of beer and a pail of saur krou
from certain place of business OF
a Sunday morning, wonder if tina
means the enforcement Of Sunda,
laws.
When a man Is seen on Sunda,
afternoon staggering from one en-,
of the sidewalk To the other an,
then land against some building 70
support, and hear him say, sd
such narrow sidewalks" wonde
if that means enforcement of sun
day laws.
A handsome granite monumen
has been placed over the grave o
John b. Cough in Hope Cemetery
Worcester, Mass.
The funeral train that conveye,
the body of ex-President Arthu
from New York to Albany consiste,
of five cars, of which one was
smoking car.
"The Dilemma Of the Nineteenth
Century" is the name of narratiy,
poem which will soon appear from
the pen of Miss Rose Cleveland
Ii treats of the woman question.